Buddhist priming lowers prejudice but not uniformly across targets

Evidence

Buddhist primes have been found to decrease prejudice toward ethnic and religious targets, although this effect is less consistent for atheist and sexual minority targets (Clobert et al., 2015; Ramsay et al., 2014). Clobert et al. (2015) suggests that it is possible that some of the potential drivers of prejudice in Western religions (e.g., dogmatism and rigidity) are attenuated within Eastern religions, such as Buddhism. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s meta-analysis purpose: this suggests the religion-to-prejudice link may be specific to monotheistic dogmatism-rigidity drivers, not religion per se. — connects to: Buddhist primes may reduce prejudice rather than increase it — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104; Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103; Religious piety reduces overt but raises covert expressions of prejudice — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2553 (+6 more)
• SEED: Angle for an essay: does cultural/religious framing (dogmatism-rigidity) rather than religiosity itself drive prejudice transfer effects?

Broader Connections

• Buddhist primes may reduce prejudice rather than increase it #corroborates (0.85) — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104
• Implicit religious priming only affects believers, not committed atheists #qualifies (0.80)
• Religious priming produces real but small and sometimes unreliable effects #corroborates (0.78) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 95
• Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes #contradicts (0.75) — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103
• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists #contradicts (0.75) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108
• Only religion-as-quest predicts reduced covert prejudice #expands (0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2042
• Religious piety reduces overt but raises covert expressions of prejudice #qualifies (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2553
• Prejudice does not uniformly lower targets’ self-esteem #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 935
• Intrinsic religion robustly predicts lower prejudice across 32 studies of religious activity #qualifies (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2539